WATCH: Jeffrey Toobin Says Robert Mueller’s Line ‘Senior Government Leaders Should Be Held to the Highest Standards’ Should Make Trump Nervous

Americans everywhere were glued to their phones and constantly refreshing news sites on Tuesday in anticipation of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s sentencing recommendation for former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Flynn pleaded guilty to one charge of lying to the FBI regarding the nature of his talks with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

When the memo finally emerged, it predictably offered no smoking gun. While it was heavily redacted, it did reveal that Flynn had spoken with Mueller’s team 19 times and the Special Counsel recommended little to no prison time due to Flynn’s “substantial assistance” regarding the investigation into Russian interference of the 2016 campaign. Both developments appear foreboding for President Donald Trump.

But legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin appeared on CNN to point out another line that should have Donald Trump sweating: “Senior government leaders should be held to the highest standards.”

Toobin said:

“The fact that he is saying ‘senior government leaders should be held to the highest standards,’ I would be a little nervous if I were the people involved in the obstruction of justice investigation, starting, of course, with the president of the United States… I think that is a statement of how Mueller is going to approach the remainder of his investigation as he starts thinking about the people in the White House.”

Get the details from Toobin in the video below:

As the precision and efficiency of the Special Counsel’s investigation has demonstrated, Mueller rarely does anything accidentally. Many agreed with Toobin that the line was far more than “filler material.”